Health practice, communication and innovation
The context for the expanding research program in Health Practice, Communication and Innovation is the current suite of health services and health workforce reforms. These involve the need for increased levels of health service safety, workforce and practice flexibility, and health system and service sustainability. These reforms require new forms of professional practice, new and more complex capabilities, new kinds of partnerships and collaborations, including new demands on higher education and the changing role of the health consumer. Our research investigates these changes and provides insights into how a more effective and responsive health workforce can be developed and supported in achieving sustainable system and practice change.
Related Projects
- Curriculum Renewal for Interprofessional Education in Health
- Partners in Hope: Integrating parenting support into an alcohol and drug treatment program for mothers and their children: a study in practice innovation.
- Remaking practices: learning to meet the challenge of practice change in primary health care
- Birra-li birthing service case study 2009
- Learning and development for sustainable health futures
- Learning and teaching for interprofessional practice (Australia)
- Sustaining practice innovation in child and family health
- Identification and assessment of osteopathic competencies and sustainabilities
- Participant understanding of information sheets in clinical trials
- Emergency communication: addressing the challenges in health care discourses and practices
- Effective clinical handover communication: improving patient safety, experiences and outcomes
- Communication for Health in Emergency Contexts (CHEC)
- Communication in family planning consultations: comparing the experiences of clients and medical practitioners
Research in this area is closely allied to the research program of the Centre for Health Communication. For more information contact Rick Iedema
Research Degree Opportunities
We are interested in recruiting research students to work with us on projects in areas of:
Interprofessional practice and education; consumer engagement and co-production, health practice and workforce development, communication in healthcare settings
Contacts for Health practice, communication and innovation
Dr Roger Dunston
Roger.Dunston@uts.edu.au
